What do trees and bicycles have to do with equity?
Trees help all people equally. But first the trees need to be planted in all neighborhoods equally.
That’s one reason Friends of Trees is partnering with ODOT and Metro to plant trees along the I-205 multi-use path, which crosses culturally and economically diverse neighborhoods.
Cycling helps all people [...]
If you missed our Pedalpalooza bike ride on the I-205 multi-use path in June, you’ll have another chance to see the new trees.
Next month Friends of Trees Green Space Manager Logan Lauvray will lead another bicycle tour, called the Equity Ride, that will include part of the path crossing through the Montavilla neighborhood.
Organizers of the Equity Ride include Friends of [...]
Join Friends of Trees for our Pedalpalooza bike ride on Thursday, June 24. Green Space Manager Logan Lauvray will lead a guided tour of the tree plantings we organized in partnership with the Oregon Department of Transportation, Metro and others along the I-205 Multi-Use Path. See nationally-progressive transportation policy action!
We’ll meet at SE 94th Ave. and [...]
By Andy Meeks
Last Saturday – the first beautiful day in weeks (and, so far, the last) – Friends of Trees hosted a Summer Festival Volunteer Training at the PCC Cascade campus. We were thrilled to have nine very enthusiastic people join us to learn about the different Friends of Trees programs, our past achievements and [...]
Tags: canopy, Gift Trees, I-205, runoff, street trees, sunday parkways, volunteering
Yesterday’s edition of The Oregonian featured another ‘Why I Plant Trees’ ad that connects community members to Friends of Trees.
Pictured with his son, Quentin, and their dog, Wizard, longtime planting sponsor Terrill Collier of Collier Arbor Care makes a generational statement on tree planting: “The trees we’re planting today will shade my family and others [...]
Tags: I-205
Since 2007 local and state transportation agencies have wrangled with the canopy complications surrounding planned improvements of Powell Blvd., also known as U.S. 26.
There are a little over $1M in improvements planned—including enhanced pedestrian and bike crossings at key intersections—but only about $400,000 worth have been approved and funded.
A collective uproar could be heard from [...]
A flashy new graphic from a green auto industry site highlights the vital roll trees play in cleansing the environment.
Published the end of last month by Greenautoblog.com, the sourced list graphically states “It takes 240 trees to absorb the CO2 produced from one car in a single year.”
The No. 8 statistic on the chart involves [...]
The Coalition for a Livable Future will host a regional sustainability summit Thursday, including breakout sessions that feature Friends of Trees planting partners.
The 2010 Regional Livability Summit runs 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the third floor of the Smith Center Ballroom at Portland State University.
Shelli Romero from ODOT will present on “Transportation Equity and [...]
Congratulations to Metro Council President David Bragdon, who received the 2010 Excellence in Urban Forest Leadership Award from The Arbor Day Foundation. Bragdon received the award for his role in preserving and restoring forest and park land in the Portland-metro region.
Metro is a key partner in two Friends of Trees projects initiated this year–a three-year project with the Oregon [...]
Tags: Arbor Day '10, Audubon, Gift Trees, I-205, Metro, ODOT
Scott Fogarty’s OregonLive guest column, Appreciating Oregon’s Trees, outlines a visionary way of valuing trees.
An excerpt from the piece:
By recognizing trees as capital assets, the I-205 project secured funding through a Nature in Neighborhoods capital grant from Metro’s 2006 voter-approved natural areas bond measure. The result: Thousands of native trees and shrubs will serve the [...]
Tags: BES, CTP, I-205, Mayor Adams, Metro, ODOT, planting, street trees
The largest, most anticipated planting season in two decades is about to end for Friends of Trees, and the results are staggering.
A quick look at the not-so-rough numbers from the 2009-10 season:
16,764* trees and shrubs planted
4,526* large trees injected into the local canopy
Over a dozen natural area restoration sites established
Thousands of volunteer hours, from digging [...]
By Shelli Romero
March 20 marked the fifth in a series of community tree plantings along the I-205 Multi-Use Path. It also marked another milestone: the 249th tree planting at which Conan Harmon-Walker volunteered.
Born and reared in Oregon, Harmon-Walker is a network administrator for Legacy Health Systems and a 14-year volunteer with Friends of Trees. He [...]
By Kimberly Dinwiddie
Beaming with enthusiasm, 18-year-old Lavette Lacy of Northeast Portland happily spent a sunny Saturday morning along the Interstate 205 Multi-Use-Path near Airport Way planting trees and shrubs.
Lacy has not planted many trees in her life; in fact, the first tree Lacy planted was along the path in December.
Lacy is [...]
By Teri Ruch
Volunteers at the March 20 Friends of Trees planting along the I-205 corridor in Southeast Portland ranged from toddlers to retirees. They came from diverse backgrounds and groups, including nonprofits, regional and statewide agencies, nearby neighborhoods, high schools, and local businesses.
But all agreed on two things: Planting trees is good; and planting trees [...]
The tree tally records continue to climb for Friends of Trees and there are still four full weekends of planting opportunities.
A quick look at the numbers so far from the biggest planting season in 20 years:
13,587 trees and shrubs planted
3,423 large trees injected into the local canopy
Over a dozen natural area restoration sites established
Thousands of [...]
Tags: canopy, I-205, linden, Metro, ODOT, planting, street trees, yard trees